A Virginia State Police trooper has died after a training exercise on Lake Anna.
Trooper Mark D. Barrett, 41, died after a conducting a deep-water dive on Tuesday, according to the state police. Barrett was having difficulty as he and another trooper were returning to the lake’s surface after a dive, police said.
Barrett was taken to Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, where he died. The cause of death hasn’t been determined. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy.
Earlier this summer, a Spotsylvania County sheriff’s deputy died in a boating accident on the lake.
